oil, canvas, 140×160 cm

purchased in 2022

This acquisition is a representative example of Forman’s painterly style. The painting presents a confrontation between the head of a baby chimpanzee and the heads of children. The repeated rhythm of the children's and chimpanzee’s figures resembles an evolutionary sequence, though it is not explicitly referenced in an anthropological sense. The chimpanzee appears more as an error in the matrix, an anomaly, a deviation from the line. While the chimpanzee is the species closest to humans, we can still observe striking differences in facial expression and psychological presence. Its inclusion in a hypothetical evolutionary line serves as a subtle reminder of our subliminal connection to the animal kingdom.

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